Climate Change, Climatic Extremes, and Human Societies in the Past
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2020) | Viewed by 29257
Special Issue Editor
Interests: socio-economic and demographic impacts of climate change in ancient and recent human history; underlying mechanisms of climatic extremes; historical epidemiology; environmental perceptions and sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
I invite researchers, no matter whether they agree on the significant impact of climate change on human societies or whether they are skeptical about such relationship, to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles, dealing with all aspects of the climate–society nexus in ancient/recent human history. This Special Issue is going to serve as a platform for collecting different opinions and facilitating a constructive debate about the ways in which the climate–society nexus can be generalized, contextualized, or even denied—a philosophical issue pertinent to the theoretical underpinnings of environmental humanities. This Special Issue will also publish review articles that help identify possible future research directions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- How and to what extent human societies are (or are not) affected by climate change or climatic extremes;
- The use of big archaeological/historical data in investigating the climate–society nexus;
- The application of statistical methods in quantitatively assessing the climate–society nexus;
- The influence of spatio-temporal scale, study period, and study area on the climate–society nexus;
- Philosophical discussion about the climate–society nexus.
Prof. Harry F. Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate change
- Climatic extremes
- Human societies
- Adaptation to climate change
- Climate resilience
- Archaeology
- History
- Big data
- Case study
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